Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the U. S. should contribute $10 for the first $5 put up by a State, match dollars thereafter, thus assuring a total grant of $25 per month for needy oldsters in States willing to give $10, a maximum of $40 in States giving $17.50. This plan's author was Senator Connally of Texas. Colorado's Johnson got it further provided that no Federal money at all shall go to States that fail to give at least $10. For child and maternal health service the Senate upped the House...
...many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood...
Though he writes best about orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...
Over one 15,000-foot pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone...
There is little midnight sun or everlasting snow in Author Victor's account, but there are unforgettable scenes of greed, filth, and foul food. Sample: "Behind the hut there was an enormous heap of seal's fat which had been left untouched for years, and was now transformed into a kind of yellowish rock which exuded rivulets of pus that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls...